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Andrew Leith Macrae

Fiction Editor
Managing Editor

Equally at home in the Gutenberg Galaxy and cyberspace, Andrew's day job is as a consultant in the multimedia field. He has published short stories in Quarry and Writ, Currently he is rewriting a novel, Negative Man, and planning his next project: The Man with the Prosthetic Brain; or, How I Flunked the Turing Test. He lives with his cat Boswell in downtown Toronto, although his two teenage children continue to be a central part of his life.

email: editor@pagitica.com


Julie Roorda

Poetry Editor

Julie's first book, a collection of poetry entitled Eleventh Toe was published by Guernica Editions in Spring 2001. A collection of her short stories, Naked in the Sanctuary, some of which have previously appeared in such publications as Fiddlehead and A Room of One's Own, will be published by Guernica in November 2003. She is currently working on a novel.

email: poetry@pagitica.com


Loreli C. Buenaventura

Arts Editor

Loreli C. Buenaventura grew up writing, directing and performing in popular theatre, and was a newspaper columnist in Winnipeg's Filipino community. A frequent speaker on anti-racism and international development, Loreli has sat on the board of numerous organizations including the United Nations Women's Committee, Oxfam, and the Community Legal Education Association. Now living in Toronto, Loreli is a freelance writer/journalist whose works have appeared in the US and Canada, including CBC radio. She is currently writing her memoir entitled In Visibility.

email: arts@pagitica.com


Sean Tai

Design

Sean Tai grew up in Fredericton, N.B. and now lives in Toronto. He is contemplating several writing projects, including a novel based on his story "American Woman", which won Special Honourable Mention in the 1998 This Magazine Great Canadian Literary Hunt. In his spare time he has been reading Flannery O'Connor and Francine Prose, as well as occasional manuscripts from the slush pile at McClelland & Stewart, where he is employed as a typesetter.

email: design@pagitica.com


T. Stephen Lavender

Director, Reading Series

Steve lives in Toronto. He is a recovering labour lawyer (there's a 12-step program) who hopes future generations will forgive him his youthful folly. Currently he is taking a year's sabbatical, and working on a novel in the hope of making amends for all his sins.

email: readings@pagitica.com


Austin C. Clarke

Mentor, Patron and Editor-at-Large

coverOne of Canada's leading men of letters, author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, member of the Order of Canada, recipient of numerous honours (such as the W. O. Mitchell Award), broadcaster, diplomat, civil rights leader, and all round good guy.

Austin's most recent novel, The Polished Hoe, has garnered widespread acclaim, and is the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize, among many others.

Other books by Austin Clarke…